The First Frost in Pittsylvania County

Water: solid, liquid and gas.  The first frost makes visible the moisture in the air at 32 degrees or below.  The soft green grasses, clover, lemon balm and other soft green ground growths hold the water crystals and wear them like a sequinned gown.  The cars look fuzzy with the microscopic, solidified water droplets resting gently on all its surfaces.  It seems as though the objects outdoors have grabbed the water in the air and made it their muse, their frock, their decoration of the season, their light and levity, their mink coat of cold, moist vapor.  The water succumbs to a recipe of vapor and oxygen, mixed in a precious concoction of visual acuity unmatched by any art submitted by Earthans.  It is a fragile mixture.  The large star we call the sun shows its warm face and smiles on the frost.  The warmth of that smile melts the heart of the frost and it slowly disappears like the setting evening sun.  Frost:  illusory, magical, flimsy and flouncy, bouncie and buoyant, fleeting and floating.  Frost, the harbinger of winter provides us a dress rehearsal of winter water wonders waiting while winter warms up to cold.   December 21st is more than just a date, it's a promise.